I don't buy the don't drink ice water. I live in a place where summer temperatures are normally over 100° F (37.7° C). And nothing feels better after doing a lot of yard work like chugging ice water. The worst that's ever happened to me was a brain freeze.
There is a reason people in the south US drink iced tea. A cold drink on a hot day, just feels good. It might be psychosomatic, but I've never heard anything outside of old wives' tales about cold drinks being bad.
In fact, I've participated in the Hotter than Hell, a 100 mile cycling event, in Texas in August. At the halfway point they have snow cones made with sports drinks for the people participating. With over 10,000+ people a year participating and over 40 years you would think someone would have had a bad reaction if drinking cold water was actually an issue.
When I was in the military I had to fly from Seattle to Wichita Falls, TX for training. With a connecting flight in DFW.. I get to the airport Sunday morning and discovered I missed my flight by an hour because of daylight savings time. This was after my ex swore up and down daylight savings was the following week.
So, I call the military travel office and they get me another flight to DFW, but there are no more flights to Wichita Falls. Since I had to be in class the next morning, they told me they'd get a one-way rental. The only catch is they had to call my commander and get authorization. Not my boss, or my bosses boss or anyone even close. The freaking commander.
Luckily for me my older sister lived in Dallas. So, I tell them not to wake up my commander at 7 am on Sunday because my dumbass believed my ex, and that I'd call them right back. I get ahold of my sister, explained the situation and she agreed to drive me 2 1/2 hours to Wichita Falls. I call back the travel office and and they book me a flight that is scheduled to get into DFW at 2pm. Then it gets delayed and delayed and delayed. I land around 10:30pm and my sister drives me to Wichita Falls. We get in around 1am. And she still has to drive back home and go to work the next day. 20+ years later I still feel bad about it, but totally greatful for having an awesome sister.
Meat is generally classified as light and dark. Red meat is part of the dark classification. It's just that beef has a higher concentration of myoglobin than chicken legs so it appears redder. Pork is in-between which is why it appears pink.
And while cows don't move much, just standing requires them to use a lot of muscles. Which is why you'll hear about veal farms doing horrible things like chaining calves to the ground so they don't develop their muscles. Which in turn causes less myoglobin which makes their meat whiter.
And then the OS turns off caps lock, but the light one keyboard stays on, so you push the button and the light turns off but caps lock turns back on, so you have to type another word stupid like that so the OS turns off caps lock again.
Frankenstein references aside, the real name origin is kind of strange. Per Dr Pepper themselves:
Wade Morrison, the drug store owner, named it "Dr. Pepper" after Dr. Charles Pepper, a Virginia doctor who was the father of a girl Morrison was once in love with.
Last time I heard Bodies I was in a CVS parking lot and a pickup truck pulled in blaring it. I nearly lost it when I saw a 40 something dad wearing khakis get out of the truck. Then I realized I was a 40 something dad wearing cargo pants and quietly went back to my car to have a midlife crisis.
At this point, I don't even know which one that is. Every damn on I've seen has been trash and I swear they are all named something like the fall of such and such. Basically making it impossible for anyone to know what order they're in.
At my first job I had to kick off these SQL stored procs to process all the orders that came in overnight. It would take a good hour to hour and half to run. So I browsed the web, drank a bunch of caffeine, and generally slacked off the first hour of my day. Then we upgraded off of our 1990s server to SQL 2005 on brand new hardware and it took less than 5 minutes to run.
I've worked in IT consulting for over 10 years and have never once lied about the capabilities of a product. I have said, it doesn't do that natively, but if that's a requirement we can scope how much it would take to make it happen. Sadly my company is very much the exception.
The worst I saw was years ago I was working on an infrastructure upgrade of a Hyper-V environment. The client purchased a backup solution I wasn't familiar with but said it supported Hyper-V. It turns out their Hyper-V support was in "beta". It wasn't in beta. They were literally using this client as a development environment. It was a freaking joke. At one point I had to get on the phone with one of their developers and explain how high-availability and fail-over worked.
I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can't stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.
After driving around south east Oklahoma this weekend, it scares me to know that there are worse roads in the state.